Dan Romero
@dwr
1. Bert is great. 2. In the wise words of Ronnie Coleman:
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Mac Budkowski
@macbudkowski
1. Yeah it's nice 2. If you set up the right ecosystem and incentives, people will post the right content. In my opinion the current structure doesn't help making Farcaster win. Or maybe it does but you have way different vision of winning than I am - happy to learn about it. You can ofc frame my well-meaning critique as whining, but I don't think that helps to build a better product.
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Dan Romero
@dwr
> If you set up the right ecosystem and incentives, people will post the right content Get concrete -- what does this look like to you?
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Mac Budkowski
@macbudkowski
As 1) Farcaster built a great crypto experience via in-app wallet + mini-apps. I think it's way better than vanilla crypto UX and chapeau bas for that. 2) Twitter is betting even more on 'get viral or die' feed strategy, so it's way harder to break through for most accounts, even those with decent following. This means that there are people who would like to chat about crypto but can't do it on Twitter. These people might be pretty open to using crypto via Farcaster as they're already crypto-pilled. 3) I think purposely tweaking algo to give more prominence to high-quality crypto related posts would help onboard more people of these people. Ofc I haven't seen your algo and the devil lies in the details. There are probably 100 ways to do it badly and only a few to do it well. But it is possible (picrel) PS: As I responded to deodad https://farcaster.xyz/macbudkowski/0xa7c03cbf
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Dan Romero
@dwr
Can you give me examples of excellent crypto posts that haven't gotten engagement?
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Mac Budkowski
@macbudkowski
This is the thing - I don't see them in my feed. Here's a quick scroll of my feed. So there are a few options: 1) People stopped writing good crypto takes => why? 2) People write good crypto takes but they are not in my feed => why? 3) People write good crypto takes, they are in my feed, but they are buried way too low => why 4) Some other explanation?
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pugson (Farcaster Professional)
@pugson
did farcaster finally enter it's post-crypto era? maybe the crypto takes are a minority now because of other things happening around us. the last big crypto conversation i saw was when stripe launched tempo. everything else has been memecoins and rugs. with the ML classification work that @v and the team are doing i wonder if there will come a time where you can pick your top 3-5 categories and that adjusts the algo to push those casts up in your feed. remember the old apple music onboarding?
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Mac Budkowski
@macbudkowski
could be. if we do have a variety of subjects then the question is how do we show the relevant posts to people. channels were a good try, but they haven't worked well enough. maybe there should be some interests like the ones you mentioned 🤔
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